Climate Politics
Colombia Is Quitting Fossil Fuels. Can It Convince Other Countries?
“We have to get out of that dependency and we have to do it fast,” Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, says on this week’s Zero podcast.
Solar panels at the Celsia solar farm facility in Yumbo, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
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Oil is Colombia’s No. 1 export. So it was major news when at the end of last year’s COP, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that the country would be joining a coalition of nations backing the “fossil fuel nonproliferation” treaty.
Colombia was the 10th country to join, and the biggest economy to do so. Now 13 countries have signed up. But Colombia’s minister of environment, Susana Muhamad, says that for this treaty to really have an impact, even more countries need to get on board.